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Letter from Donna |
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Dear Parents,
This newsletter will mark the last for 2010, and I want to take this opportunity to share the accomplishments of your daughters from these first months of the school year. You will receive their reports next week, but what you won’t see on the reports is what happened before the reports could be compiled. A sampling of their successes follows. This fall, depending on her grade level, a student in the Lower School has:
- Learned how to read
- Determined the area and perimeter of a triangle, rectangle, or other polygon
- Researched a notable woman, written a monologue, and performed it for over two hundred people
- Listened, spellbound, to the tales of a children’s author from Alaska
- Planted a tree on our campus, and planted more trees in Willistown Township
- Learned about the holiday of Duwali, and participated in the traditional painting of the hands with henna
- Collaborated with the rest of the division to put on a musical play
- Used her knowledge about the important elements of a community to design and build a community out of boxes and other recycled materials
- Created three dimensional shapes according to specific criteria
- Strategized to successfully pump her legs on the swings and go all the way across the monkey bars
- Applied her new knowledge to write a story or myth, which accompanied a self-designed constellation
- Skipped—really skipped—for the very first time
- Helped organize the collection and distribution of over 800 containers of food for the Ardmore Food Pantry
- Learned how to recognize the upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
- Studied the tradition of making dumplings in China, as well as making her own
- Critiqued the portraits of the famous, and created her own self-portrait
- Utilized Photoshop software to tell a story
- Learned the elements of a good poem and written her own
- Evaluated, decided, and acted on ways in which our division can make the world a better place through service
- Memorized her math facts
None of this is possible without the dedication of the adults who also come to school, work hard, and never give up trying to find new ways of moving your daughters forward in mind, body, and spirit. In this season of gratitude I thank you for the gift of your daughters, and am grateful for the ways in which the Lower School teachers make the learning of our students possible. I wish you a Winter Break full of special times with your girls and other loved ones.
See you next year!
Donna
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Upcoming Events |
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Monday, December 12
AIS Holiday Concert (grades 4-12 performing) - 7 p.m. - LTB '49
(4th graders arrive in their homerooms at 6:30.)
Tuesday, December 14
Dress Rehearsal for the LS Holiday Concert (may be attended by those not able to make the Wed. performance. Please contact Murray Savar for more information.) - 2 p.m.
Wednesday, December 15
Lower School Winter Holiday Concert - 8:30 a.m. - LTB '49
Friday, December 17
Dismissal at 12 noon! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! |
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Dismissal Friday, December 17
Friday, December 17th is a 1/2 day of school. Pre-K will be dismissed at 11:30 a,.m. K-4 will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m. or as soon as the Holiday Assembly concludes. There will be no After Session and the buses will arrive at noon. Be on the lookout for a Holiday Dismissal Form in your daughter’s bag next week. Please complete it and return it to the school by Thursday, December 16. - 4th Graders will be participating in the AIS Winter Holiday Concert on Monday, December 13 at 7 p.m. (LTB '49) They should arrive at 6:30 p.m. and go to their homerooms. (Please wear a dress or skirt/blouse.) Contact Murray Savar with any questions.
- Don't forget to keep collecting those Box Tops over the holiday! Mrs. Hagin and Mrs. Downey's classes were the winners of the free dress days, but the next winners will get to decide how to spend the money we earn for their classrooms! And, every class that has at least 90% participation will win an ice cream party! So remember to continue saving those Box Tops over the Winter Break--the contest ends on January 28th.
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